Every successful sales pitch at Land Forces, every business card exchanging hands at the official networking events, means more weapons in the hands of those who can always justify their use.
Loneliness has become a feature of modernity, a hallmark of late capitalism, woven into the technologies and built environments that form the architecture of our lives.
This mindset of not rocking the boat, glorifying pragmatic compromise (almost always with the right, not the left), shaming other left-wing democratic opponents, and calling for #changefromwithin is a weak, liberal-centrist theory of change.
To be a young diaspora Pakistani is to inhabit a constant dichotomy of hope and humiliation. For us, Khan’s promise of a Naya Pakistan means a chance to escape this demeaning cycle.
This week we’re all about the E.U.P.H.O.R.I.C. worker power feels, plus “neoliberal perfectionism”, escaping the long tail of the Neolithic and why Marx and Engels are the ultimate libs. Or something.
We thought it was high time to engage in the online version of cornering someone at a party and foisting a copy of your favourite book on them, assuring them that it'll "change your life, honestly, just read it, it's amazing."
This week we’re reading about racecraft, investigating the origins of Silicon Valley ideology, and getting increasingly excited to see Sorry to Bother You. This is a totally normal header image about which we have nothing in particular to say.
The analysis trumpeted by Attenborough and other Malthusian environmentalists is flawed because it fails to identify the true cause of environmental collapse: capitalism.